Nanobot setup on Oracle Cloud (with Ollama)

1. Download Telegram App on phone and register
2. Download Telegram Desktop App on computer and login
3. Open a terminal

# install Ollama
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh # for  Linux

You will see this:
"Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/ollama.service → /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service.
>>> The Ollama API is now available at 127.0.0.1:11434."
You can copy the address and open it on your browser to check Ollama running status.

# Pull the desired model
Ollama pull qwen3-vl:8b # replace with your model

# Check the model list
Ollama ls

# install Nanobot (stable version)
pip install nanobot-ai

# Initialize
nanobot onboard

# configuration file
sudo nano ~/.nanobot/config.json

# Paste the following content in the config.json file:
{
  "providers": {
    "openai": {
      "apiKey": "dummy",
      "apiBase": "http://localhost:11434/v1"
    }
  },
  "agents": {
    "defaults": {
      "model": "qwen3-vl:8b" # your model here
    }
  },
  "channels": {
    "telegram": {
      "enabled": true,
      "token": "YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE",
      "allowFrom": ["YOUR_NUMERIC_USER_ID_HERE"]
    }
  },
  "tools": {
    "web": {
      "search": {
        "apiKey": "your-brave-search-api-key",
        "maxResults": 5
      }
    },
    "exec": {
      "timeout": 60
    },
    "restrictToWorkspace": false,
    "mcpServers": {}
  }
}


# Test agent
nanobot agent -m "Hi"

# Start gateway
nanobot gateway

4. Test it on telegram and enjoy using your Nanobot assistant